Sandy, Republican voters have agency, and when push came to shove, they voted for someone who is responsible for 1M+ deaths from COVID, a cratered economy, an attempted coup. Those voters wanted more Trump. He is more popular today with the Republican base than ever. We can quibble about lower voter turnout and Democratic messaging and a…
Sandy, Republican voters have agency, and when push came to shove, they voted for someone who is responsible for 1M+ deaths from COVID, a cratered economy, an attempted coup. Those voters wanted more Trump. He is more popular today with the Republican base than ever. We can quibble about lower voter turnout and Democratic messaging and all that shit, but at the end of the day, enough voters wanted an authoritarian fascist head of state because a) they like it, b) are fine with it as long as the price of eggs comes down and are thus amoral, and c) are dumber than a sack of hammers and are unable to clearly see the risk to the country.
In other words, when a significant number of voters are fine with someone who wants to bring Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal under US control by force, increasing Democratic voter turnout is not going to address the root cause of what ails us.
Dear Sandy, The results of the election were simple and verifiable. Donald Trump won, and he won by a couple of hundred thousand votes. It is why he won, the roots of why he won, that is ultimately the question that must be faced and diagnosed.
Even if Harris had won, we'd still need to face and diagnose Trump's popularity. I'm interested in why he lost in 2O2O and won in 2O24. Biden beat him by only 4OK votes in 2O2O. What was different about 2O24? Dem turnout. That's what needs to be analyzed and understood.
Sandy, Republican voters have agency, and when push came to shove, they voted for someone who is responsible for 1M+ deaths from COVID, a cratered economy, an attempted coup. Those voters wanted more Trump. He is more popular today with the Republican base than ever. We can quibble about lower voter turnout and Democratic messaging and all that shit, but at the end of the day, enough voters wanted an authoritarian fascist head of state because a) they like it, b) are fine with it as long as the price of eggs comes down and are thus amoral, and c) are dumber than a sack of hammers and are unable to clearly see the risk to the country.
In other words, when a significant number of voters are fine with someone who wants to bring Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal under US control by force, increasing Democratic voter turnout is not going to address the root cause of what ails us.
I thought we were talking about the results of the election, not the root cause of what ails us. Which is what, oin your view?
Dear Sandy, The results of the election were simple and verifiable. Donald Trump won, and he won by a couple of hundred thousand votes. It is why he won, the roots of why he won, that is ultimately the question that must be faced and diagnosed.
Even if Harris had won, we'd still need to face and diagnose Trump's popularity. I'm interested in why he lost in 2O2O and won in 2O24. Biden beat him by only 4OK votes in 2O2O. What was different about 2O24? Dem turnout. That's what needs to be analyzed and understood.